Friday, August 31, 2007

Home Loans; A Frank Conversation; U.S. Embassy in Baghdad; The Week In Sports; Frederic Franklin

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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Virginia Tech Massacre Report; Avoiding Freshman Pitfalls; Pool Warning; Pakistan Power Play; Camel Deaths; Brain On Music

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Katrina Anniversary; Promise of The Web; Israel Rejects Darfur Refugees; Darfur: A Young Perspective; Guilty Pleasures

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Fires In Greece; Libby, Montana; New Orleans Latinos; Larry Craig; Author Merrill Markoe

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Monday, August 27, 2007

Gonzales Resigns; Gonzales Resignation Reaction; Home Sales and Home Depot; The US Open; Stories From The Street

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Friday, August 24, 2007

Mortgage Credit Crisis; “The Entitled”; Who Lost Iraq?; Green Dorms; Lazy Lester

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Report Expresses Doubts about Iraqi Government; Political Roundtable: War and Politics; “100 or Less”; Bill Littlefield and the Week in Sports; Mort Sahl

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

CIA Report on 9/11 Failures; Is the Nation Prepared?; Challenger Generation; Cable Epiphanies

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Can Maliki Survive?; Pastor to the Presidents; Can Chrysler be Saved?; “Foot Trolleys of Death”; The Science of Smiling

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Monday, August 20, 2007

Immigration Activist Deported; A Crash Course in Market Basics; Bad Building; Vietnam Vet Helps Hometown Soldiers; “Kira-Kira”

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Friday, August 17, 2007

Rescuers Killed in Utah Mine; Autism Study; The Home’s a Stage; Letters; Composer John Adams

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Army Suicides; The New Cold Rush; British Leaving Troubled Basra; The Week in Sports; Elvis Marathon

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Petraeus Plan for Iraq; Fuel of the Future?; Toy Risks I; Toy Risks II; Crown Prince of Woodstock; Air Guitar Championship

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Heat Wave; Get Healthy or Pay; Tracking Parolees; Architectural Dance; Musical All-Stars

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Monday, August 13, 2007

Rove Departing; Building a Better Water Jug; Pope Benedict’s Edicts; Alternative to the Campus Bookstore; Eliza Minot

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Friday, August 10, 2007

Stocks Plunge; What the Class of 2011 is Reading; Marine Cleared of Iraqi Murders; Art Science; Israel’s New Jazz Star

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Thursday, August 9, 2007

Bush Press Conference; The Campaign Trail; “Why Men Are Babies”; Big Dig Manslaughter Charge; Megastar Plays Falling Star

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Wednesday, August 8, 2007

New Immigration Rules; “Crucible of Terror”; Medical Ethics; The Elderly and Humor; Lone Cranberry

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Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Utah Mine Cave-In; Army Corps and Katrina; Sarkozy’s Vacation; Advertising and Food; Robin Cook

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Monday, August 6, 2007

Weapons Gone Missing; Imported Food Safety; Western Wildfires; Profile of a Firefighter; “Edible Estates”; “Sweet Land”

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Friday, May 18, 2012
The Appian Road, in the Monti Aurunci area of Italy. (Robert Kaster/University of Chicago Press)

For many people, this time of year is an occasion for road trips — up and down the coasts, across the U.S., through Europe. For Robert Kaster, it was a time to venture along the most ancient roads of all time: the Appian Way in Italy.

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Friday, May 18, 2012
(Michael M. Phillips/Wall Street Journal)

It was supposed to be a calm ride for marines travelling in Zaranj, along Afghanistan’s border with Iran, but a suicide bomb changed that. Photographer Michael Phillips witnessed the scene unfold and joins us.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Musician John Fullbright at Here & Now studios at WBUR in Boston. (Jesse Costa/Here & Now)

Okemah, Okla., is the birthplace of folk legend Woody Guthrie. It’s also the hometown of singer-songwriter John Fullbright, who at just 24, is already being compared with folk great Townes Van Zandt.

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